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Booting to a Linux Console vs. Linux Desktop


  Article Summary:  To use Linux, you log in as a user at a Linux console, or a GUI login prompt. Learn how to use Linux. Read tips & Watch free sample Linux videos.  

As part of getting Linux training on Linux concepts, you need to learn Linux terms to understand the concepts.

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Booting Linux to a Console or to a Desktop and Logging In to Linux


You can set up Linux to 1) boot to a console, also known as a virtual terminal - or 2) boot to a Linux desktop.

To use Linux, you must log in to Linux. You log in as a user at a login prompt at a console, or at a GUI login prompt, prior to going to a Linux desktop.

Booting Linux to a Linux Console


When you boot to a Linux console, you don't see a Linux desktop or have access to a Linux desktop, you just see a black screen with a login prompt, and the login prompt looks similar to this: Login:

  Linux Training Tips:  Linux servers are very often installed and set up so that they boot to a Linux console (a Login: prompt) instead of a Linux desktop. In many situations, a Linux desktop is not required on a Linux server and so a desktop is not installed.  

To run Linux commands to do Linux system administration, you log in as the user named root - at the Login: prompt at the console, not at a GUI login prompt prior to logging in to a desktop.

At the Login: prompt, you type in root and press Enter and then type in the password for the root user at the password prompt and press Enter.

  Linux Training Tips:  For security reasons, never log in to a Linux desktop as the root user.

To work as the root user from a Linux desktop, log in to the desktop as a regular user, open a terminal emulation window and run the su command, with the - (dash) option.
 

  Linux Training Tips:  "Linux console", "Linux terminal", "Linux virtual terminal", "vt" and "terminal emulation window" are also sometimes referred to as simply "terminal" or "console".  

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